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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:36:04 +0100
From: Virgil Stokes <vs@it.uu.se>
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On 2012-10-28 19:21, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> On 28 October 2012 14:20, Virgil Stokes <vs@it.uu.se> wrote:
>> On 28-Oct-2012 12:18, Dave Angel wrote:
>>> On 10/24/2012 03:14 AM, Virgil Stokes wrote:
>>>> On 24-Oct-2012 01:46, Paul Rubin wrote:
>>>>> Virgil Stokes <vs@it.uu.se> writes:
>>>>>> Yes, I do wish to inverse the order,  but the "forward in time" file
>>>>>> will be in binary.
>>>>> I really think it will be simplest to just write the file in forward
>>>>> order, then use mmap to read it one record at a time.  It might be
>>>>> possible to squeeze out a little more performance with reordering tricks
>>>>> but that's the first thing to try.
>>>> Thanks Paul,
>>>> I am working on this approach now...
>>> If you're using mmap to map the whole file, you'll need 64bit Windows to
>>> start with.  I'd be interested to know if Windows will allow you to mmap
>>> 100gb at one stroke.  Have you tried it, or are you starting by figuring
>>> how to access the data from the mmap?
>> Thanks very much for pursuing my query, Dave.
>>
>> I have not tried it yet --- temporarily side-tracked; but, I will post my
>> findings on this issue.
> If you are going to use mmap then look at the numpy.memmap function.
> This wraps pythons mmap so that you can access the contents of the
> mapped binary file as if it was a numpy array. This means that you
> don't need to handle the bytes -> float conversions yourself.
>
>>>> import numpy
>>>> a = numpy.array([4,5,6], numpy.float64)
>>>> a
> array([ 4.,  5.,  6.])
>>>> with open('tmp.bin', 'wb') as f:  # write forwards
> ...   a.tofile(f)
> ...   a.tofile(f)
> ...
>>>> a2 = numpy.memmap('tmp.bin', numpy.float64)
>>>> a2
> memmap([ 4.,  5.,  6.,  4.,  5.,  6.])
>>>> a2[3]
> 4.0
>>>> a2[5:2:-1] # read backwards
> memmap([ 6.,  5.,  4.])
>
>
> Oscar
Thanks Oscar!